Yoenis Cespedes is a late scratch with sore wrist

Yoenis Cespedes was a very late scratch because of left wrist soreness, the A’s just announced.

Manager Bob Melvin mentioned before the game that Cespedes had come out of Monday’s Home Run Derby healthy, but it appears perhaps the event did take something of a toll on him. My guess is that it probably isn’t terribly serious if the A’s felt he could go right up until the last minute, but that’s my speculation only, and of course we know he has a history of hand and wrist injuries.

UPDATE: Cespedes is day-to-day with left wrist soreness; A’s manager Bob Melvin doesn’t believe the problem to be related to the Home Run Derby on Monday because Cespedes had felt fine since that event. He felt the discomfort during batting practice this evening, and still felt it when he went to hit in the cage right before the game.

Through an A’s spokesman, Cespedes declined to comment. Like Coco Crisp, Cespedes dislikes discussing injuries. The team will have a better idea what Cespedes’ upcoming availability might be like tomorrow when he comes in tomorrow and the training staff can evaluate how the wrist responded to treatment.

Cespedes was on the DL with a strained muscle in his left hand, and he was on the DL last year with a similar issue. He had a right wrist sprain last August and September but did not go on the DL.

Cespedes hit 32 homers, total, in winning the Derby on Monday and he said afterward that he would have kept going if team captain Robinson Cano had told him to stop hitting once he won the final round. He had five outs to go but held up when he hit winning no. 9 in the final round.

Josh Reddick is now batting fifth and Chris Young is playing left and batting seventh.